ArticleHead & neck2017
Weight loss after head and neck cancer: A dynamic relationship with depressive symptoms.
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- Investigating factors associated to dysphagia and need for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in patients with head and neck cancer receiving radiation therapy.Journal of Cancer · 2022Article
- Association of depressive symptomatology with problem alcohol use in rural head and neck cancer patients at diagnosis.Journal of psychosocial oncology · 2022Article
- Problem alcohol use among rural head and neck cancer patients at diagnosis: Associations with health-related quality of life.Psycho-oncology · 2021Article
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- Psychological distress and nutritional status in head and neck cancer patients: a pilot study.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2020Article
- Adverse respiratory outcomes among head and neck cancer survivors in the Utah Cancer Survivors Study.Cancer · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundWeight loss and depressive symptoms are critical head and neck cancer outcomes, yet their relation over the illness course is unclear.
methodsAssociations between self-reported depressive symptoms and objective weight loss across the year after head and neck cancer diagnosis were examined using growth curve modeling techniques (n = 564).
resultsA reciprocal covariation pattern emerged-changes in depressive symptoms over time were associated with same-month changes in weight loss (t [1148] = 2.05; p = .041), and changes in weight loss were associated with same-month changes in depressive symptoms (t [556] = 2.43; p = .015). To the extent that depressive symptoms increased, patients lost incrementally more weight than was lost due to the passage of time and vice versa. Results also suggested that pain and eating-related quality of life might explain the reciprocal association between depressive symptoms and weight loss.
conclusionIn head and neck cancer, a transactional interplay between depressive symptoms and weight loss unfolds over time. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Head Neck 39: 370-379, 2017.
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